The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-04
BARBER WISDOM.
Points from An Observer Who Has
Shaved His Fellows for Thirty Years.
From the Nei0 York Sun

Points from An Observer Who Has
Shaved His Fellows for Thirty Years.
From the Nec York Sua.
1T is not true that peachy checked boys
are the easiest to shave" said one of the
officers of the BARRIERS Union, who has
worked at his trade over thirty years.
The easiest men to shave are fat men.
The fatter man is the less work it is for a
barber to shave him. 1t is not the size of
mans face so much or the strength of his
beard us the chance barber has to get at it.
When a man is thin and the bones of his
face stick out at angles a barber pust be
careful or he will run his razor through fhe
skin by trying to cut too long and wide
stroke. With thin man he must go along
little at a time, while on fat man he
takes heavy razor with wide edge and
mows the beard off.
"Boys are not easy to shave we'll The
hair on their face has no strength. and the
razor glides over it without taking it off,
or the barber leaves patches which he
doesn't notice, The sharper razor is the
worse it is to shave fuzz with it. 1t takes
some time for the fuzz to tougher, and until
1T toughens and has some resistance to it the
barber is bothered in shaving 1t is not so
much the strength of the beard that causes
trouble in shaving as il is the tenderness of
is more tender than the skin of Older men.
That makes the barber take more care to
avoid cutting through A tough beard on
tough face is not SO bad as an easy beard
on tender face.
"Red boards are worst. ! do not mean
auburn boards q have an auburn beard my
self, but those red boards that grow out
like wire and have thin skin under them.
There are black boards that are as tough as
thOca wi, ra1 lint a with n lUb
black beard usually has tough skin, and
you can NOW the hair off him, while red
bearded men have cranky skins 1t is bet
ter to have the same barber shave you, on
account of the peculiarities of hair and skin
that every man has The hair of the face
does not grow in an even grain, and no bar
Der who shaves you the first time will take
it just right If you have tough skin, inn
proper shaving will not matter SO much, but
if your skin is tender, little pimples will
break out where the razor went the wrong
way. Then, a barber becomes acquainted
with the soft and hard spots of your face
and makes allowances. II is better to have
fairly good barber shave you steadily than
to change around among the best.
Curly hair is easier to cut than straight
hair because it is softer The softer and
finer hair is the less work it is to cut it.
Most people think that curly hair is hard to
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Some hair is SO tough that it bluntS the scis-
sors. The oftener hair is cut, the harder it
is to cut it. Black or red hair is the hardest
to cut, as the hair is stronger. Fair, curly
hair is easiest. 1t is great deal with hair
cutting as with shaving The barber who
knows about you will give you better
satisfaction than the barber who doesn't
"lhere is one thing about BARRIERS that
have often wondered over. There are more
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bald men in any other business. | do not
know why BARRIERS become bald. Perhaps
it is worry, or, more likely, it is thought
BARRIERS are great thinkers. Their toll at
shaving or cutting hair is, to certain eX-
tent, mechanical and it leaves the mind
free. That may account for the number of
bald BARRIERS, but | have never been able
quite to explain it. BARRIERS used to wear
their hair long, and take great care in hay
ing each lock oiled and carefully curled, but
only some of the old-time BARRIERS do that
now The new BARRIERS have become dan
dies, and wear their hair short. They are
too careful about their personal appearance.
preachers take more care of their hair
than anybody else, and none of them wear
long hair They have all kinds of boards
| and hair, just as other men, but they ar
range their hair and boards differently
Now, there isn't any man that 1would rather
have shaved than Henry Ward Beecher
He had nice, fat, easy face. But Talmage
well, he's too thin in the face, and his
lower jaw is not smooth enough. There are
angles in the jawbones, and I'd be afraid to
scrape the skin off one of them. Catholic
priests are seldom bald, especially the priests
who have their tonsures shaved. That pre-
serves the hair on top of the head. Protest
ant preachers usually wear long hair. As a
class their hair is longest.
doctors are careful of their hair, but
many of them grow bald or gray | have
a theory that graynesS is caused by the
loss of lime and iron in the system, and
doctors must lose their lime and iron quicker
than preachers. Some doctors think it
helps them in their practice if they grow
gray young.
Brokers build lot on their personal ap-
pearance, but they do not pay sufficient at
tention TO their hair. They put it off ON their
BARRIERS instead of looking after their hair
themselves A man must brush his hair
often if he wants it TO look right. A broker
goes to barber shop in the morning to be
shaved, and has his hair brushed then in
stead of looking after it himself.
Newspaper men take less care of their
hair than men in any other business. They
wear it cut short to save them the time and
trouble of brushing it. Men who work on
newspapers are short-haired race.
totOreKeepefS, except III bne uIy goods
line, do not wear short hair The further
up in the store you get the longer is the
hair worn. The clerks and statesmen have
short, spruce hair, while the heads of the
firms could tickle their noses with their
back hair.
"Bartenders and actors are among the
men who travel on their personal appear
ance, but they do not impart sufficient indi-
viduality to their hair. They give the
whole care of their head over TO some bar
Der who possibly is not competent for the
task A man should take an interest in his
own hair. 1t is something to be thought
over and to be made something of. A man
should try different arrangements of his
hair and beard to see which are most be-
coming, and should consult with his barber
as he does with his physician. A barber
cannot do what's best for man unless tho
man takes a personal interest in it. The
owner of the hair should supply the fullest
information to the barber, who then can
act with intelligence"
Harvey's Equipment.